If a man have two wives, one beloved, and another hated, and they have born him children, both the beloved and the hated; and if the firstborn son be hers that was hated:
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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Unto me men gave ear, and waited, and kept silence at my counsel.
Job
Wisdom / JobWhy do we sit still? assemble yourselves, and let us enter into the defenced cities, and let us be silent there: for the LORD our God hath put us to silence, and given us water of gall to drink, because we have sinned against the LORD.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahAnd the children of Dan sent of their family five men from their coasts, men of valour, from Zorah, and from Eshtaol, to spy out the land, and to search it; and they said unto them, Go, search the land: who when they came to mount Ephraim, to the house of Micah, they lodged there.
Judges
HistoryWhat shall therefore the lord of the vineyard do? he will come and destroy the husbandmen, and will give the vineyard unto others.
Mark
Gospels / MarkAnd of the priests; Jedaiah, and Jehoiarib, and Jachin,
1 Chronicles
History / EzraAnd he taught in their synagogues, being glorified of all.
Luke
GospelsThat thou mightest know the certainty of those things, wherein thou hast been instructed.
Luke
Gospels / LukeHe that turneth away his ear from hearing the law, even his prayer shall be abomination.
Proverbs
WisdomAgainst whom when the accusers stood up, they brought none accusation of such things as I supposed:
Acts
History / LukeNow after these things, in the reign of Artaxerxes king of Persia, Ezra the son of Seraiah, the son of Azariah, the son of Hilkiah,
Ezra
HistoryAnd all the people brake off the golden earrings which were in their ears, and brought them unto Aaron.
Exodus
Law / MosesTake heed unto yourselves, lest ye forget the covenant of the LORD your God, which he made with you, and make you a graven image, or the likeness of any thing, which the LORD thy God hath forbidden thee.
Deuteronomy
LawThen the elders of his city shall call him, and speak unto him: and if he stand to it, and say, I like not to take her;
Deuteronomy
LawBut he answered and said unto them, Why do ye also transgress the commandment of God by your tradition?
Matthew
Gospels / MatthewAnd he said, So is the kingdom of God, as if a man should cast seed into the ground;
Mark
GospelsAnd he turned back, and looked on them, and cursed them in the name of the LORD. And there came forth two she bears out of the wood, and tare forty and two children of them.
2 Kings
HistoryThese are the families of Issachar according to those that were numbered of them, threescore and four thousand and three hundred.
Numbers
LawSay I these things as a man? or saith not the law the same also?
1 Corinthians
Pauline EpistlesThere is none to plead thy cause, that thou mayest be bound up: thou hast no healing medicines.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsAnd Saul said, Bring hither a burnt offering to me, and peace offerings. And he offered the burnt offering.
1 Samuel
HistoryBut I say unto you, That ye resist not evil: but whosoever shall smite thee on thy right cheek, turn to him the other also.
Matthew
Gospels / MatthewFor there shall be no more any vain vision nor flattering divination within the house of Israel.
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielNow the rest of the acts of Abijam, and all that he did, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah? And there was war between Abijam and Jeroboam.